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Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Legislation Filed by Carlos Guillermo Smith

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Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith just filed a bill to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol. You can read the full text of the filing of this bill. We cover a wide range of topics in the medical marijuana program and some of Representative Smith’s other agenda items this legislative session.

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Sunshine Cannabis New Sunshine Kush TruPOD and Sunshine Gold Trustick available at Trulieve A portion of ALL proceeds will go to the Regulate Florida legalization movement.

Career Extracts
Florida Marijuana
We Are Rare

CannabisCare Clearwater’s #1 MMJ Recommending physician.

Support Cannabis Legalization in Florida by volunteering or donating to Regulate Florida.

Wendy Love Edge and Topher Kogen Episode 082

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This is a long overdue podcast that was recorded a couple of weeks ago. Wendy Love Edge and Topher Kogen have been fighting on the frontlines of the drugwar in Arkansas, and recently invited me onto their show to discuss the Florida medical marijuana program. On this episode I invite them on to discuss what their role has been in the legalization push, and how things are going in Arkansas. This is an amazing episode that’s an hour in length and covers a wide range of topics. Wendy Love Edge is an accomplished author, educator, philanthropist, activist and advocate that is working day and night to raise awareness to the miracle we know as the Cannabis plant.

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Wendy Love’s Full Bio:

WENDY LOVE EDGE is local author, artist, talk show host and cannabis activist.  She is from Boston originally, and has recently made NWA her home again after  several years.  Ms. Love Edge is magna cum laude graduate of Boston University in 1987, with a BS in Occupational therapy.  Ms. Love Edge is most known for being the founder of Bulldozer Health Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization and health care reform initiative.  You can learn more about it at www.bulldozerhealth.org.  

In 2017, Ms. Love Edge authored the book, “Sixteen:  My Journey into Wellness”.  She then authored and illustrated two more books for children.  The first is “Helpful Hannah Creates Her Own Health and Happiness” and the second is “Helpful Hannah Educates Herself About Cannabis”.  These books are meant to educate and inspire individuals to health empowerment and improved health and wellness. The cannabis education book was written to teach children the truth about the cannabis family of plants, and reduce the stigma attached to it. 

As an artist, Ms. Love Edge spent her formative years immersed in art, music and dance.  She dabbled in acrylics, water color and pastels, coming from a family of creatives.  She was able to utilize her talents and knowledge when she worked for 25 years as an occupational therapist, utilizing the art and science of therapy to treat patients.  She began to work with painting again in recent years, for not only it’s therapeutic value, but to send the messages of health, wellness, ending cannabis prohibition, promoting cannabis as medicine, and encouraging personal spirituality.  It has truly been a journey of art and healing that has created her most recent works. 

Ms. Love Edge was recently selected to be an artist member of The Cannabis Art Guild, presently one of 8 artists worldwide.  Her work will be with hemp materials for the guild, where “the medium is the message”.  This exhibit will tour worldwide at cannabis events and exhibits starting in 2019. Please check out the guild at www.cannabisartguild.org. 

The Marijuana Solution Partners and Sponsors:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis New Sunshine Kush TruPOD and Sunshine Gold Trustick available at Trulieve A portion of ALL proceeds will go to the Regulate Florida legalization movement.

Career Extracts
Florida Marijuana
We Are Rare

CannabisCare Clearwater’s #1 MMJ Recommending physician.

Support Cannabis Legalization in Florida by volunteering or donating to Regulate Florida.


Evio Labs Co-Founder and President, Chris Martinez Sets the Bar HIGH for Third Party Cannabis Testing Labs in the U.S.

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We previously had on Cynthia Brewer, the director of operations for Evio Labs Florida and this episode Robert Roundtree speaks with Chris Martinez, the co-founder and President of Evio Labs Florida. Since Cynthia first introduced The Marijuana Solution listeners to Evio Labs, a lot has happened. Evio has received ISO certification on its Davie lab, and the newly opened Gainesville lab and a bunch of other great things.

This is close to an hour of everything you need to know about third party testing in Florida. There are only a handful of dispensaries in Florida that provide third party lab results, and only one that has made it very easy from the beginning, and that’s Trulieve. Some companies actually do not test the products. With testing rules coming down the pipeline, Chris gives us some insight into the types of standards that we can expect in the Sunshine State.

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The Marijuana Solution Partners and Sponsors:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis

Career Extracts
Florida Marijuana
We Are Rare

Support Cannabis Legalization in Florida by volunteering or donating to Regulate Florida.

Combat Medic Finds a True 1:1 Afghan Cannabis and Brings Back to US for Veterans’ PTSD Treatment

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R Gage Amsler, author of The Strains of War, joins Robert Roundtree for the second appearance on The Marijuana Solution. While on tour in Afghanistan, with snow lightly covering the Hindu Kush region, Gage and his team spot a handful of beautiful cannabis plants that were chock full of seeds.

The genetics are now back in the US and being developed for release as free clones to veterans for home grown medicine. This is an hourlong podcast that every veteran an dcannabis enthusiast must listen to. We will continue to have Gage back on in the future. The pictures below are the ones that Gage speaks about during the podcast.

Gage and his team.
Gage seeds recovered from the Hindu Kush Valley and brought back to the United States.
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The Marijuana Solution Partners:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis
Florida Marijuana
We Are Rare

Kim Rivers CEO of Trulieve Cannabis Corporation Recaps 2018 and Gives a Glimpse into 2019

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This episode I bring on our most popular guest, Kim Rivers, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Trulieve Cannabis Corporation. Since I last spoke with Kim Rivers on The Marijuana Solution, Trulieve has made major leaps forward in the cannabis industry in Florida and globally. Kim Rivers recaps some of those leaps with us such as going public on the Canadian Securities Exchange, pushing past 100 skus, expanding into a 50k+ square foot processing facility, expanding into additional markets and so much more.  

Since getting a license in Florida, Trulieve has been led by Kim to become the most profitable cannabis company in the world in a vertically integrated business model.  Not only is this hard to do because of the costs associated with scaling a vertically integrated company, but it’s nearly unheard of.  Under the guidance of Rivers, Trulieve focused on dominating the Florida market with first in class customer service, product offerings, transparency, community outreach and competitive pricing.  The business model for distribution that was first discussed on this episode, and compared to parts of a bike, has been the winning ticket to dominating the Sunshine State with over 70% market share.  

Under Rivers, the company has become the people’s champ because they are literally fighting the state to increase access, in a lawsuit to increase the number of stores all MMTC’s are allowed to open.  Trulieve was first to sell whole flower cannabis(you can buy it online and have it delivered right here) and has even filed to sell seeds, clones, mature flowering plants, and trimmed buds.

As the Pioneer of Florida’s medical marijuana program, Trulieve has thus far proved to be The Marijuana Solution for the state of Florida.  Please make sure to share this podcast with your friends and family and make sure to SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review.  

The Marijuana Solution Partners and Sponsors:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis

Career Extracts
Florida Marijuana
We Are Rare

Support Cannabis Legalization in Florida by volunteering or donating to Regulate Florida.

Find out From Hunter Reid What it’s like to grow for Trulieve and How it’s Changed his Life

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Hunter Reid joins The Marijuana Solution podcast on episode 66 to discuss what it’s like working in the Florida medical marijuana industry for Trulieve.  Hunter is one of the lead growers at the Quincy cultivation facility of Florida’s largest medical marijuana producer.  Hunter gives us an inside look at what it’s like to work for Trulieve, and the impact it has had on his life outside of work.

If you are looking to get into the cannabis industry, go to the Career Extracts Website.

Go to Florida’s Largest Cannabis Career Fair

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The Marijuana Solution Partners and Sponsors:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis

Career Extracts
Florida Marijuana
Mission Zero
We Are Rare

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Brittany Lengyel and What it’s Like to Overcome Adversity And Remain Positive No Matter What Life Deals. You

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I was introduced to Brittany Lengyel at the Florida Medical Cannabis Conference and we instantly connected.  She loves talking smack, making jokes and staying positive.  Little did I know she had recently had a traumatic brain injury and that’s what makes her passionate about medical marijuana.  Brittany has used mmj to help with the issues she deals with following a horrific car accident.  Brittany has gone through hell and back.  She is here to tell us how she remains positive through it all and continues to carry the message.

Despite the horrible audio on my end that occurred after a microphone malfunction, her voice comes through loud and clear and that’s what matters.  Share this podcast with anyone you know who may be dealing with similar types of injuries.

 

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The Marijuana Solution Partners and Sponsors:

Trulieve
Sunshine Cannabis
Florida Marijuana
Mission Zero
Minorities 4 Medical Marijuana
We Are Rare

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Download Regulate Florida Petition

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Aaron Nevins is Breaking up The Vertically Integrated Medical Marijuana Program in Florida, Find out Why on The Marijuana Solution Episode 045

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Patients and Producers Alliance filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida to end the vertically integrated market that Florida medical marijuana treatment centers must adhere to. Host Robert Roundtree speaks with Mr. Nevins to find out more about the lawsuit and how it will help open up the market and create more opportunity for entrepreneurs and patients.

Aaron Nevins is founder and managing partner of Chelsea Road Consulting, a public affairs consulting firm, as well as Painted Dog Productions, a full service digital media and publishing company.

Past projects include: a grassroots campaign protect the Bright Futures Scholarship Program, a successful mobilization of supporters to secure approval to build Westlake-a new city in Palm Beach County, breaking a Fortune 500 company’s 25-year garbage monopoly in Broward County (FL), as well as creating a grassroots group to support the Brightline high-speed passenger train.

Patient and Producers Alliance has a vision for a horizontally-regulated, free market-based system to help patients and their physicians gain more appropriate options that will lead to safer access to appropriate cannabis treatment by:

Promoting and advocating patient’s rights related to medical cannabis
Educating the public on the restrictions and challenges to accessing medical cannabis
Promoting a well-regulated, free market-based system to ensure appropriate patient access to a broad selection of cannabis based products
Educating cannabis patients and their physicians about cutting edge treatment options and new products
Assisting cannabis producers to foster a favorable economic and regulatory environment in the United States
Advocating for innovative cannabis producers to expand patient options and opportunities.

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The Marijuana Solution Partners:

Trulieve
SMRT Collective
Sunshine Cannabis
Florida Marijuana
Mission Zero
Minorities 4 Medical Marijuana
We Are Rare

Jose Belen joins Robert Roundtree on Episode 42 featuring SMRT Science

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Jose Belen, founder of Mission Zero, joins Robert Roundtree, host of The Marijuana Solution for episode 42.  Some of the things we will be covering is the recent dismissal of the Federal lawsuit against Jeff Sessions that Jose is a plaintiff in.  Jose is also hear to give us an inside look into Politics and what it takes to get initiatives done.  Speaking of initiatives, Jose and his organization Mission Zero have many new initiatives coming up to help end veteran suicide.  Jose is a personal friend of mine and it is an honor to have him on.  I personally know no one else that is working harder for veterans than him and his wife.  He is a humble, compassionate war hero that will do whatever it takes and knock on as many doors and have as many meetings as it requires to get the job done.  This episode is extra special, because it includes the first episode of SMRT Science featuring Ryan Hurley of the SMRT Collective.  Ryan is reporting live from the weeklong Pitcon science trade show at the Orlando convention center.  SMRT Science is the only place to get the most up to date and accurate information as it pertains to cannabis testing, research and the science that is keeping our medicine safe for patients.

FIND OUT IF YOU QUALIFY FOR FL MMJ

The Marijuana Solution Partners:

Trulieve
SMRT Collective
Sunshine Cannabis
Florida Marijuana
Mission Zero
Minorities 4 Medical Marijuana
We Are Rare